| 词汇 | prophecy |
| 释义 | prophecy noun uk /ˈprɒf.ə.si/ us /ˈprɑː.fə.si/ [ C ] a statement that says what is going to happen in the future, especially one that is based on what you believe about a particular matter rather than existing facts: （尤指基于主观判断的）预言 The minister suggested that the dire prophecies of certain leading environmentalists were somewhat exaggerated.部长暗示说某些很有影响的环境保护者所作的可怕预言一定程度上有些夸张。 These doom and gloom prophecies are doing little to help the economy.这些悲观的预言对经济毫无用处。 [ U ]formal the ability to say what is going to happen in the future预言的能力 Predicting things and intuition augur augury bellwether betcha bode herald horizon scanning hunch inkling instinct prefigure premonition premonitory presage prescience telepathy there's no knowing/telling/sayingidiom unforeseeable unintuitively unreasoning You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Extrasensory perception & telepathy prophecy | American Dictionaryprophecy noun[ C ] us/ˈprɑf·ə·si/ a statement that tells what will happen in the future: biblical prophecies Examples of prophecyprophecy If philosophy or astrology were revealed to the ancients, then the sayings of philosophers or astrologers and the prophecies of inspired seers are equivalent. In the 1960s, some very vivid prophecies about the relationship of telecommunications and the city were made. However, there is reason to warn against too hasty a conclusion in this regard and against those very pessimistic prophecies. To this extent, the variables used in surveys represent self-fulfilling prophecies. When they are not reckless, our gambles about practices amount to self-fulfilling prophecies: they change our relation to nature or to other people so as to make themselves more real. I use the word adds here because the real difficulties, the important contextual conditions, the soil in which such prophecies flourish, have to do with power and dominance. In spite of numerous prophecies of the imminent death of many languages, linguists always find a handful of old people who still speak them and can be competent consultants. The series of high medieval prophecies under discussion was transmitted, with a large degree of variation, as much by manuscript illustrations as by any common text. The dynamics of the probabilities of pessimism around business- and growth-cycle turning points may shed light on the role of self-fulfilling prophecies in subsequent economic fluctuations. A wider "religion of nature" facilitated much wider powers, such as enabling magicians to make reliable prophecies on the basis of their ability to decipher images. The problem is that images can function as self-fulfilling prophecies and beautiful images produced by very skilled architects are in themselves a sign and a tool of power. Rather, the bulk of the poem presents the reflections of a skeptical female voice, who doubts her friend's prophecies, and who extends that doubt to all supernatural religious prophecies. Again the gloomy prophecies were made, and again they were disproved. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of his gloom has been justified, and almost all his prophecies have come true. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, some may be moving towards self-fulfilling prophecies. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English See all examples of prophecy These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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